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"Games" that have more cutscene than gameplay

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"Games" that have more cutscene than gameplay

Post by rusty_shackleford »

No hyperbole, I want to see some real jap ****

The Bouncer, a near-launch title for PS2 by Squaresoft. A single playthru is about ~45 minutes of cutscenes, and ~40 minutes of gameplay.
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A lot of Snoy titles are notorious for this, no? All the cinematic slop, like Uncharted and ****.
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If I remember right, Wolfenstein: The New Order was about 7 hours long in normal difficulty, with over 3 hours of cutscenes.
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MGS 4 is notorious for that
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Post by J1M »

I would argue that given the animation timings, Dark Souls and its cousins fall into this category.
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.
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Any of the Tales games, starting with Tales of Vesperia (in my experience).
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Persona 5 is the king of this as far as I know (stats are base P5 not Royal, not sure how it changes on Royal)
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(total cutscene time / total playtime) = percentage of time spent in cutscenes

Persona 3 FES: 10hr44min/81hr14min = 10.733/81.233 = 13.21%
Persona 4 Golden: 21hr48min/69hr46min = 21.8/69.767 = 31.25%
Persona 5: 43hr28min/96hr16min = 43.467/96.267 = 45.15%
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Post by Val the Moofia Boss »

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Any non-jap games of note?